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IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS - QUOTES AND ANALYSIS (Continued)
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QUOTATIONS FOR THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Christopher equates physical pain to emotional pain, in part because his mental pain does manifest in a clearly physical way. In this case, however, he is attempting to describe a kind of feeling that has been alien to him until now. Further, he applies this feeling to his earlier-stated ambition of becoming an astronaut - the comforts he had felt the occupation would provide are now weighed against the discomforts he experiences in an analogous situation. This sense of discomfort grows worse when he describes the rush and push of being in the Swindon rail station:
And when I am in a new place, because I see everything, it is like when a computer is doing too many things at the same time and the central processor unit is blocked up and there isn't any space left to think about other things. And when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is even harder because people are not like cows and flowers and grass and they can talk to you and do things that you don't expect, so you have to notice everything that is in the place, and also you have to notice things that might happen as well. And sometimes when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is like a computer crashing and I have to close my eyes and put my hands over my ears and groan, which is like pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL and shutting down programs and turning the computer off and rebooting so that I can remember what I am doing and where I am meant to be going. (144)
This passage reflects a sense of anxiety in the run-on sentences that pack in too many ideas at once, itself a reflection of his problem in new places. The comparison of his mind to a computer is explored in an elaborate fashion. Finally, by describing his shutting out the outside world as a kind of mental reboot, the mechanical nature of the brain and its functions is......
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